Priscilla Lui, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Advising:
Possibly accepting new graduate students in 2026-2027, please email with questions.
Areas:
Adult Clinical
Interests: Minority mental health; substance use; measurement; meta-science
Research
My research focuses on how people from diverse sociocultural backgrounds make sense of the world, and how their lived experiences associated with culture, ethnicity, and race affect their psychopathology and addictive behaviors. I am interested in measurement development and psychometrics, and metascience (i.e., research on the research process). The goal of my research program is to inform culture-centered interventions that can alleviate psychological distress and improve functioning among people across diverse ethnocultural backgrounds.
Education
Purdue University (2016)
- Cultural and Individual Diversity: Principles and Best Practices in Research and Applications
- Research Strategies in Clinical Psychology
- Psychology of Culture, Ethnicity, and Race
- April 16, 2025 Priscilla Lui's paper selected as Editor's Choice Selection by APA's Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology editor
- April 25, 2024 Psychology major Amaris Ilar selected as gonfalonier (banner carrier) for UW Commencement Ceremony. Ilar works in Priscilla Lui's ADAPT lab.
- March 21, 2024 Priscilla Lui guest edited a special issue of the APS journal Clinical Psychological Science
- February 9, 2024 Priscilla Lui co-authors three journal articles on alcohol use behaviors
- November 2, 2023 Priscilla Lui served on APA working group to develop Journal Article Reporting Standards for Race, Ethnicity, and Culture
- October 4, 2023 Priscilla Lui featured in National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) newsletter
- September 20, 2023 Priscilla Lui received $2.5M R01 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study the effects of racial discrimination on alcohol and cannabis use
- August 22, 2023 Priscilla Lui quoted in Axios Seattle article on therapists of color
- July 13, 2023 Priscilla Lui quoted in NW Asian Weekly article on multigenerational travel
- June 1, 2023 Priscilla Lui received Emerging Professional Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity and Race
- February 14, 2023 Priscilla Lui & Colleague published in Assessment
- Lui, P. P., Gobrial, S., Stringer, E., & Jouriles, E. N. (2025). Effects of racial discrimination on stress, negative emotions, and alcohol craving: A registered report of a virtual reality experiment. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 31(2), 296–317.
- Lui, P. P. & Kamata, A. (2024). Harmonizing assessments of everyday racial discrimination experiences: The Multigroup Everyday Racial Discrimination Scale (MERDS). Assessment, 31(2), 397-417.
- Lui, P. P., Gobrial, S., Pham, S., Adams, N., Giadolor, W., & Rollock, D. (2022). Open science and multicultural research: Some data, considerations, and recommendations. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 28(4), 567-586.
- Lui, P. P., Tsong, Y., Pham, S., Ramadan, B., Quezada, L., Del Rio, M., & Zamboanga, B. L. (2021). Explaining the alcohol immigrant paradox: Perspectives from Mexican American adults. Journal of Latinx Psychology, 9(2), 109–124.
- Lui, P. P. & Quezada, L. (2019). Associations between microaggression and adjustment outcomes: A meta-analytic and narrative review. Psychological Bulletin, 145, 45-78. doi:10.1037/bul0000172
- Lui, P. P. (2019). College alcohol beliefs: Measurement invariance, mean differences, and correlations with alcohol use outcomes across sociodemographic groups. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 66, 487-495. doi:10.1037/cou0000338
- Lui, P. P. (2019). Rethinking the acculturation gap-distress theory among Asian American emerging adults: Testing the bidirectional indirect effects. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 89, 627-639. doi:10.1037/ort0000322
- Lui, P. P. (2015). Intergenerational cultural conflict, mental health, and educational outcomes among Asian and Latino/a Americans: Qualitative and meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin, 141, 404-446. doi:10.1037/a0038449